HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 

 0hio and The mounds and burial places in Mason County, Kentucky, were 



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explored by Mr. Harlan I. Smith in 1895, while similar work was 

 carried on in Licking County, Ohio, by Dr. George A. Dorsey, and 

 in Hamilton County by Mr. C. L. Metz in 1895, resulting in the ad- 

 dition of an important series from these regions. 



The largest collection of Michigan archaeological remains in any mu- 

 seum was collected in the Saginaw Valley by Mr. Harlan I. Smith and 

 was presented by him in 1896. 



The ancient inhabitants of the pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona, 



and the cliff dwellings of Colorado and Utah are well represented in the 



Museum's collections. For this material the Museum is largely in- 



a B nd T F B E Hyde debted to the Messrs. B. Talbot B. Hyde and Frederick E. Hyde, Jr., 



Hyde, jr., whose desire that the Museum should have an extensive and authentic 



Expedition. . , 



collection from the cliff houses, ancient pueblos, burial caves, and 

 mounds led to their supporting expeditions in New Mexico, Arizona 

 Utah, and Colorado, covering a period of several years. The result 

 included a large series of archaeological objects from the pueblos and 

 skeletons from the prehistoric Pueblo Bonito and other ruins and 

 burial places of New Mexico, and from burial caves in Utah. The field 

 work was in charge of the Curator of the Department of Anthropology, 

 Prof. F. W. Putnam. Members of the expedition at various times were 

 Mr. F. E. Hyde, Jr., Mr. Richard Wetherell, Prof. R. E. Dodge, Dr. A. 

 Hrdlicka, F. W. Putnam, G. H. Pepper, and W. Orchard. In addition 

 to the results obtained by their expeditions, the Messrs. Hyde have pur- 

 chased and presented several important collections ; one of great scien- 

 tific interest was that collected by Mr. Richard Wetherell from the cliff 

 houses and caves of the Grand Gulch region of Utah. It contained 

 mummies and funeral objects of a people evidently distinct from, and 

 who probably preceded, the builders of the ancient stone pueblos and 

 Southwest. cliff houses. The accessions from the southwest also include a collec- 

 tion of pottery from the modern pueblos, gathered by Mr. Pepper on an 

 expedition in 1903, which was financed by Messrs. B. T. B. Hyde, F. 

 E. Hyde, Jr., and Mrs. Robert W. de Forest. 



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